need input from someone more experienced

[aggiesrwe03]

Hey guys brand new to photography want some critique good or bad I bought a G10 to learn on in Dec. what do ya`ll think?!?!?!

[aggiesrwe03]

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[aggiesrwe03]

wont me do more than 2 at a time

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[aggiesrwe03]

ok last two for now

[J Charlton]

Amazing shots!

[tonydee]

Hello and welcome to the POTN forums,

Just a tip... post a couple shots at a time as reviewers tend to feel overwhelmed seeing so many, especially when many will elicit similar feedback. If you post just a couple, but do it more often, they can hope to guide you into evolving your photography.

Many of these pictures seem to have issues with image quality... graininess, focus, sharpness etc.. Unfortunately, compacts (including my G9 and your G10) are best at low ISO settings (e.g. 80), when there's plenty of light. To comment on your specific quality issues, it helps enormously if we see your camera settings - saved inside the original images as EXIF data. When you resave these smaller versions for the web, your software will hopefully give you an option to retain that data. From it, we can infer whether you did the best with the available light, or might have been able to tweak something for a clearer image.

It also helps to put #1, #2 etc beside each photo so we can easily refer to them.

#5: too dark in the shadow areas. In the first shot, if you'd taken a much longer exposure then the lights would have been very over-exposed. The best approach in this situation is something called High Dynamic Range photography. Basically, you take a few pictures of the same thing - some darker and some brighter - then let the computer sort it all out for you so everything looks ok. You could google HDR and have a read. qtpfsgui is some free software you could initially use.

#6: again, too dark. The sky is terrific, so fill more of the frame with it and show less "boring" dark ground... the usual rule is 2/3rd of whichever is more interesting of ground and sky.

#7: very nice... I like this the most of the images you posted. You have a good mix of foreground, mid and background interest, and some nice colour. I have a bright monitor - many people will find this too dark too.

#8: Try to avoid having things that lead the viewer's eye out of the image, like the flame actually reaching the top, or the lid cut off on the left. You might have tried rotating the lighter a little clockwise (as perceived from above), so the lid was in the shot and the face of the lighter was only slightly slanted but still easy to read. Some soft lighting from in front could bring out more detail in the embossing, but may have compromised the mood you were trying to create too....

#9: sky is ok, but probably looked better in real life than in the photo. Fact is there are a lot of images of magnificent sunsets out there, and it takes something a little extra to make one stand out: foreground, midground, reflections, mountains, lead in lines, all the usual candidates but two telegraph poles don't deliver strongly against this criteria. The horizon is very low in the shot - well below the Rule of Thirds placement (i.e. a third from bottom), which make it a bit less settled.

#10: I like the lighting, tonality and framing. Subject matter's your own taste. Well done.

Cheers, Tony

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